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When you've got a lot of chips, it's easier to keep winning," Matthew Paige Damon confided the other evening as we settled into our seats for several hands of seven-card stud, high-low. We were hanging out in a private poker club in New York City, and none of the players had a clue that the baby-faced kid pulling up to the table was within days--perhaps hours--of becoming a Big Movie Star...
...they saw in Damon the same thing Hollywood does--an all-American beer-drinking dude, with an appealing self-assurance. The 27-year-old actor's gambling strategy was to raise, raise, raise--an approach that suited a wealthy young man whose annual salary just went north of $1 million, but whose cards weren't what you'd call a sure thing. Long after lower-paid mortals folded, Damon continued to bet like a winner; he'd arrived at the table with $200 and left only $20 poorer, which of course did nothing to deter the amiable grin that rarely...
Nobody expected this season from Menick or anyone in particular. In fact, the starting position was vacant when the season opened. Junior Troy Jones, Sophomore Damon Jones and freshman Chuck Nwokocha all competed for carries...
...Fullback Damon Jones has returned from injury to give Harvard yet another skill-position threat. He catches the ball well out of the backfield and can even be a breakaway threat when he carries the ball...
...YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Try to remember which young Matt was Damon and which was McConaughey...